Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of “hid­ing and duck­ing” af­ter a high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed Pub­lic Ac­counts Com­mit­tee meet­ing card­ed for yes­ter­day to re­view the de­tails sur­round­ing the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al’s re­port in­to a $2.6 bil­lion un­der­state­ment of rev­enue in the 2023 pub­lic fi­nan­cial state­ments was sud­den­ly post­poned. 

While cy­ber­crime con­tin­ues to be a con­cern for the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Kei­th Scot­land is sug­gest­ing that it may be time for T&T to im­ple­ment laws that pre­vent chil­dren un­der the age of 16 from hav­ing ac­cess to so­cial me­dia. 

The Joint Cham­bers are call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to ur­gent­ly re­solve the on­go­ing in­dus­tri­al ac­tion caus­ing se­vere dis­rup­tions at the Port of Port-of-Spain. The Amer­i­can Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (AM­CHAM T&T), the En­er­gy Cham­ber, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (T&T Cham­ber), and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) is­sued a joint state­ment yes­ter­day, crit­i­cis­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s in­ac­tion in what they de­scribe as a na­tion­al cri­sis at a peak time for ship­ping ac­tiv­i­ty.

In an ef­fort to do their part dur­ing World Kind­ness Day yes­ter­day, the non-prof­it or­gan­i­sa­tion, Ross Re­Think dis­trib­uted hun­dreds of free meals such as dou­bles, bake and shark, cof­fee and choco­lates. at their head­quar­ters on Gray Street, Port-of-Spain.

Two in­ves­ti­ga­tions are un­der­way in­to the al­leged as­sault of an im­mi­gra­tion of­fi­cer by an Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty (AA) se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port on Tues­day af­ter­noon. 

Po­lice are prob­ing the mur­ders of three men in Bel­mont, which oc­curred late Tues­day night leav­ing res­i­dents trau­ma­tised.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a case of ex­tor­tion af­ter a 65-year-old Tacarigua res­i­dent re­ceived a men­ac­ing call de­mand­ing mon­ey in the ear­ly hours of Tues­day morn­ing.

A 35-year-old man was de­nied bail yes­ter­day af­ter ap­pear­ing in court charged with the mur­der of Po­lice Con­sta­ble Kr­ish­na Ba­na­har.

Con­cerns have in­ten­si­fied over an im­passe be­tween the Na­tion­al Lot­ter­ies Con­trol Board (NL­CB) and Play Whe/Lot­to booth own­ers as the NL­CB has sus­pend­ed mul­ti­ple ma­chines across the coun­try, a move that raised ques­tions about the board’s mo­tives and man­age­ment prac­tices.

In an era dom­i­nat­ed by ab­bre­vi­at­ed lan­guage like ‘LOL’—Laugh­ing Out Loud—for­mer Na­pari­ma Col­lege prin­ci­pal Dr Michael Dowlath warns that over-re­liance on tex­ting is stunt­ing stu­dents’ com­mu­ni­ca­tion abil­i­ties, a crit­i­cal skill for em­ploy­a­bil­i­ty in to­day’s job mar­ket.

Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials con­firmed yes­ter­day that Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley will head a team from T&T at next week’s Sec­ond Cari­com-In­dia sum­mit in George­town, Guyana, which In­dia’s Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Mo­di will at­tend.

A 27-year-old co­conut ven­dor from Gas­par­il­lo re­port­ed­ly de­fend­ed him­self dur­ing an at­tempt­ed rob­bery while at the Preysal Fly­over.